Spiritual Gifts, Part 2

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 4 April 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Perhaps no topic in evangelical circles stirs more controversy than the nature and function of spiritual gifts. There can sometimes be a great divide between ‘cessationists’ and ‘continuationists’ on the “unusual” gifts. In this sermon on Romans 12:6 titled “Spiritual Gifts (2),” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones speaks with clarity and boldness on the topic. In arguing for the continuation of all the gifts – including the unusual gifts – he answers specific objections posed by ‘cessationists’. One unique feature of this sermon is Dr. Lloyd-Jones’s reminder to all camps of the sovereignty of the Holy Spirit in both the dispensing of gifts and withholding of gifts. The Spirit alone determines the manifestation of all gifts but the Spirit can be quenched. This difficult balance is maintained in this message where he warns that quenching the Spirit results in not just a lack of unusual gifts, but also the hinderance of the “regular” gifts. Moreover, he helpfully answers one of the most practical questions in the Christian life: how does one know their particular gift? With practical application and in-depth teaching on prophesy, tongues and miraculous gifts, Dr. Lloyd-Jones expounds on the great doctrine of spiritual gifts.

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0:00.0	We resumed this evening our study of the sixth verse in the 12th chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans.
0:09.8	The Epistle to the Romans chapter 12 and verse 6.
0:13.8	Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us,
0:20.7	well the prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith.
0:27.9	Now, we are considering, still, we haven't quite finished our consideration of the first part of that verse,
0:35.5	having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us.
0:42.8	We have already started considering that, and we have emphasized the point that all these gifts
0:52.8	are given.
0:54.8	They are not self-generated, self-produced.
0:58.1	Indeed, we can do nothing about that at all,
1:00.5	and there is nothing more dangerous than to attempt to do so.
1:04.9	They're not natural gifts, these.
1:07.1	He's not talking about natural gifts.
1:09.1	These are spiritual gifts.
1:11.8	I believe it's possible that sometimes the spiritual gift, as it were, is superimposed upon a natural gift.
1:20.3	But that still means that it isn't the natural gift.
1:24.2	It is what is superimposed upon the natural that really constitutes the essence of these
1:30.8	spiritual gifts. But some of them are just distinct and separate and don't seem to have much
1:37.9	relationship to the natural gifts at all. We've seen also that these gifts are only given to believers. We've seen that it's
1:47.7	right for a believer to covet the better gifts. And indeed he's, in a sense, exhorted to
1:54.3	do so. But he must only do so for the reason that he's anxious to edify the whole church. It's all in terms of this
2:03.5	body to which we belong, not something personal, private, individual. The setting of the gifts
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